The "Our Neighbor Voices" effort, which began in North County San Diego, would call for a constitutional amendment returning most land use power to local governments.
The city had denied the project, claiming it was inconsistent with the general plan. But the judge, a former city council member, said the inconsistency was not identified during the "shot clock" period under the Housing Accountability Act.
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed major infill housing reform with the budget, meaning the changes take place immediately. But on the non-residential side, it's still "Swiss-cheese CEQA," and there's no relief for greenfield proejcts.
The First District Court of Appeal published a ruling that favored the City of Eureka over opponents of an affordable housing project downtown. The city had separated the surplusing of the land from the selection of the affordable housing developer.
For the past century or so, two industries have both fueled Los Angeles’s local economy and defined its civic image: Hollywood and real estate. Now that both are faltering, it's worth thinking about their communalities -- and their woeful indifference to each other.
Wiener's bill to give transit agencies great power over development on their land got pushback at the Housing Committee but passed. Another Wiener bill that would have expanded his previous bills was killed.
A robust crop of recently published books explore California land use in all of its complexity, from north to south, coast to forests, and plenty of places in between
